Allen Tate Company, the Carolinas’ leading real estate company, is pleased to announce that Tom Gongaware, general sales manager for the company’s Triangle region, has been re-elected to the board of directors of the Triangle Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

Gongaware will begin serving a two-year term in January 2014. He has more than 20 years of residential real estate experience and has worked with Allen Tate Company since 2009.

Gongaware has earned the Certified Real Estate Brokerage Manager (CRB) designation presented by the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers (CRB). He is a Graduate of the Realtors® Institute (GRI) and holds the e-PRO certification from the National Association of Realtors. He also has received the “At Home with Diversity” certification from HUD and NAR.

He is a director of the Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS® and the North Carolina Association of REALTORS® and served as the 2012-2013 President of the North Carolina Chapter of the Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers. He is a former trustee of the Eastern N.C. Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.